My Riffs

Lies aren’t safe. Being told what we want to hear isn’t safe.  But truth and love is safe. Telling someone the truth and in love is true safety. Being told the truth and love is safe. 

If I woke up this morning, I’m blessed. The rest is just opportunity. Bad times? Opportunity. Endings? Opportunity. Good times? Still opportunity. 

Comfort isn’t entirely a good thing. Momentary comfort is good and maybe even necessary. Sleeping comfortable every night is a blessing and a luxury. But living in a state of comfort? That’s an invitation to decline.  Do things that push you out and past that comfort zone. Therein lies the albeit hard but better path to bettering yourself and making a greater impact. 

Sometimes we slip. But don’t allow yourself to slip twice. Step forward. Stepping forward is always the right response when things slip. 

We add so much pain to ourselves when we ruminate, when we hang onto the past and when we fight what we can't change. It's so hard to do. It's easy to say stop. But when you can stop these things, you can remove added pain from life. Life comes with enough built-in pain. We don't need to heap any more on.

Tomorrow is a new month. But it’s also a new day.  Great opportunity to turn the page.  We get a new start every single day. Don’t waste even one waiting to start fresh. Do it right away, start immediately even.  A starting line can be drawn anywhere.